We will be at Town Center Mall in Kennesaw, Georgia, Saturday, February 22 from 11am to 4 pm.
Camp fairs can be long, busy, and tiring for us, but having a few campers or alumni stop by sure brightens up our day!
If you haven’t yet become part of the Camp Dixie family, come out and talk to us and you’ll begin to see why Camp Dixie has lasted 100 years!
Come see us at North Point Mall in Alpharetta, Georgia on January 25 from 11am until 4pm.
Campers and Alumni are always welcome to stop by. With luck we should be pretty busy, but we can always steal a moment to share with our Camp Dixie friends and family!
If you haven’t yet been to Camp Dixie, camp fairs are a great way to talk to us face to face. Let us tell you what makes Camp Dixie special.
We thought that we might mix it up a bit and post something rather new to include campers of today. Each summer we ask campers to write a poem or short story to be used as their meal ticket. Themes and subjects vary but all are based on the Dixie Spirit. This month we are posting a poem by Erin “Salty” Boyd a camper for 6 years. This year Erin will be a CT and thus making it her 7th summer at Camp Dixie.
Camp Dixie is great
Wouldn’t you agree?
Where the tiny frogs hop
And the butterflies fly free
When Pop J built this camp
99 years ago
It was only for the boys
Having girls was a no!
The sisters started to complain
Pop J said don’t be hating!
He built them a girl’s camp
Way up here in Clayton
The two camps were separate
But only for a while
Then the boys packed up and left
The girls welcomed them with smiles
Then one summer Miss Ann came
With the campers she did play
The next summer when she came back
She was there to stay
Miss Ann owned this camp
For a good many years
Then she passed away
And there were many tears
Now Rhonda owns this camp
It’s a job she does so well
Every summer the campers here
Think she’s very swell
The kids who come year after year
Make the memories great
Is this a big a coincidence?
Or is it just fate?
Every year when I arrive
I’m greeted with a smile
From counselors and CTs
Traditions here at camp aren’t sparse
But two stand out loud and clear
One is the tie around our necks
That reminds us friends are near
The second traditions happens once
Each year at summer’s end
A log at council fire is taken out
And passed on to remind us of our friends
Besides all of the traditions
You stay at camp is unique
Whether you stay for the whole summer
Or for only a week
Each year the girls do sisters
It’s always so much fun
We leave each other notes and gifts
Which strengthen bonds that have just begun
Each day we do five activities
That range from many things
From archery and riflery
To creekwalking and tra-mop-o-line
During free swim
At the dock you will see
Campers playing 7-9-12
Playing and swimming free
Every Thursday night
We camp out in the woods
We cook our own burgers
And hotdogs and they’re good
At the end of the week
When it’s time to say goodbye
The times spent here in Dixieland
Will be remembered for all time
Camp Dixie Lake as the snow falls
It’s snowing here at Camp Dixie. So many think of ‘Camp Dixie’ and ‘Summer’ as synonymous, but in Winter, Dixie can be a very different place. In Summer the hills echo with the sounds of children, today snow muffles all sound. Two words describe today, quiet and cold. Don’t worry, we have a fire in the fireplace and we spent the day getting boring work done on the computer. Meanwhile, outside the trees are traced in snow as great white flakes fall silently to the ground.
The trees covered in snow.
As most of you know and others will soon hear Camp Dixie is preparing for her Centennial Celebration in 2014. We are in the early stages of planning for this momentous event. This event will be an opportunity for all connected with Dixie to celebrate and express gratitude for this wonderful place and to honor those people who have made Dixie such a lasting influence in so many lives.
And to remember those past leaders and campers, each month we will be posting
articles from the “Dixie Doings” . We thought it would be appropriate for the first article to be on the Camp Dixie Spirit. We hope that you will enjoy these words from the past and they will inspire you to sign up for the Centennial Celebration.
“Camp Dixie Spirit”
When a group of people are gathered together in an assembly of any kind, their happiness and the success of their meeting are determined largely by the spirit which exists among them. The assembly whose members all have the same spirit of co-operation and service is able to accomplish the best results for its purpose.
Here at Camp Dixie we have a gathering of boys, collected from every part of our Southland. We come here, many of us as strangers to each other at first, to pass a summer of fun and profit together. If we would get the most enjoyment out of these two months, if we would make these two months count for most for each one of us, then we must try to create the best possible spirit in camp.
Last year one of the very best features of our camp was the splendid spirit shown by the campers. Every boy on camp seemed to have adopted as his motto: “All for one, and one for all.” That spirit prevaded the entire camp, the boys practiced it in their every-day life, and the established the “Camp Dixie Spirit” as based upon that motto.
Let’s all adopt the “Camp Dixie Spirit!” Let’s make it the guide of our every-day program. It is a spirit of co-operation and service, of helpfulness and unselfishness. It looks always after the welfare of others, and sees that the other fellow is having the best time of his life. It teaches the beginner how to swim and play baseball better, it shows us how to sit up straight at the table, it makes us think of others first, and it helps us to work for the welfare of the camp as a whole rather than of individuals. It keeps everybody busy, but it keeps everybody happy and contented, pleased with the knowledge of helping others.
That’s the “Camp Dixie Spirit.” It’s the best in the world and it makes everybody happy who adopts it. If we get that spirit we can have just as good a time as is possible for anyone to have, and we will also be giving a good time to somebody else. The “Camp Dixie Spirit” —learn it, get it, practice it, and your will be the gain.
Wallace P. Zachary, July 7, 1917
The Camper Application for Summer 2013 is up!
We just made some major changes to the website. Hopefully everything is working properly, but please let us know if you find any problems.
Rhonda just set this out via email but for those not on the list:
Time again for another edition of Dixie Doings, Camp Dixie’s alumni newsletter. We sent Dixie Doings out via email. If you didn’t get your copy, just send us an email and ask to be added to the Dixie Doings mailing list.
The Digital Library of Georgia just posted about a collection containing many photos of Camp Dixie from the mid 1920’s.
Take a look and see some Camp Dixie history.
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